The Problem with Playing Romney

When Weekend Update Thursday premiered during the 2008 presidential election season, it meant one thing: more Tina Fey. 30 Rock was hitting its stride and, thanks to her Sarah Palin shtick, Fey had been exposed as the funniest woman alive. (Also: secretly hot.) Do you remember what that fall was like? You couldn't get away from Fey's stumbling Alaskan cadence. In a good way.

Not so this time around. Where there was a certain entertainment about Sarah Palin, no matter your political allegiance, Mitt Romney only seems to elicit groans from his detractors. Which isn't to say Jason Sudeikis's Romney wasn't the best part of last night's return of Weekend Update Thursday. It was. But it's also hard not to think, as you watch, God, when will this election be over? Or Did SNL really need to blow half its material two days before the main event? All of which is to say, watch the cold open above. It's worth it. Don't worry about the rest.